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by vr46 3y ago
Just started a new tiny greenfield infra project for a friend but was too cowardly to use OpenTF after I tried it and found that I needed Hashicorp providers etc, couldn’t be bothered to dig in and untangle. Gotta say, didn’t find opentf do
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by vr46 3y ago
I have tried Boinc in the past, I didn't find anything that was visually interesting for me locally - one cool thing about SETI was the screensaver and graphics, if anyone has any suggestions for something cool and fun I could exchange
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by vr46 3y ago
Right now I wouldn’t even believe he was Craig Wright if he said so himself.
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It's the trade-off with Prince, as Susan Rogers explains in another comment I made, where he needed to get his ideas out first and foremost. There were a lot of stunning-sounding albums around at the time!
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She's mentioned elsewhere about messing up and them leaving it in too - like the Forever In My Life vocal was an error I think, but how good does that sound!
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by vr46 3y ago
Sure, but the mix is not the recording, and it's the masters that are the bone of contention here. And we have hundreds of contemporary albums that were all designed to be heard on all the same equipment, in 1987 alone we had Terence T
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by vr46 3y ago
Well, several people in the thread have pointed out how subjective my original point was, so fair enough, but on this particular point, the brilliance is in the songwriting, arrangements and performance. They're amazing, even in their
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by vr46 3y ago
Susan Rogers on Prince: "It’s really important. I think that’s a really important question. People have asked me, or they’ve prefaced questions by saying, “Prince was known to be a perfectionist.” I always have to correct them. He was
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by vr46 3y ago
It was definitely a highly-experimental time, pulling old tapes and recordings in too, and the result was flat and dull to me on a high-end Walkman even at the time, because I had cut-glass quality recordings from folks like Quincy Jones to
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by vr46 3y ago
Yeah, fair point, it's subjective but here it's a case of different things being important to different people. The album - SOTT in this instance - sounds the way it does and I've been listening to it for 37 years and wouldn&
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by vr46 3y ago
Love Susan Rogers, and the Prince albums she engineered or worked from are standout-brilliant, from Purple Rain to Sign O The Times, but good gracious me are they sonically pretty terrible. I didn't expect much from the 2020 Sign O The
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by vr46 3y ago
Covered already in this instance, thoroughly: 'The judge said in his ruling that he had examined “raw underlying intelligence material” before deciding there was not a “real and immediate risk” to NX121 or his family if his identity wa
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by vr46 3y ago
Yes, and that specific tree was cloned by grafting, and you can see one of them in Cambridge.
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This is totally correct and in line with all guidelines, naming once charged.
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by vr46 3y ago
No, guidelines specifically say only once charged, people may be named, in line with the principles of open justice. Sources: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Reportin... https:/
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by vr46 3y ago
Yes, British politics has been on an absolute roll for entertainment the last few years for anyone not effected by it, but that said, you can never accuse the Brits of ever, ever, losing their own sense of humour about it (Economist & t
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by vr46 3y ago
As a fellow Brit with an American Studies degree, I follow US news and events to this day with a detached eye that really helps understand it, which I cannot possibly do with the UK, at least not politics, and having formally studied US his
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You are largely right, but they had advertised it visually very differently - on what people could expect to see - and for the price it really wasn’t better value than a special exhibition at the BM. I’m clearly still sore about it almost t
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It wasn't an exhibition, but a whole series of zones that you could freely wander around in, each one a show in itself. I recall going through the learning zone, and seeing the huge doors where you could hear the headmaster yelling beh
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This happened to be an egregiously-bad example of these cheap, padded-out, pop-up shows that are everywhere. Anything that isn't run by a major museum or gallery is highly suspect in my book. I recall a Tutankhamun show that I think ha
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by vr46 3y ago
Yes it was two posh ladies buying the Charlie and looking over at me in the distance nervously. I guess this was before delivery had really taken off. Strange. Never found that end of Islington to be particularly bad, even if was a bit hect
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by vr46 3y ago
Agreed and I was well-aware when commenting, hence the flippancy! I guess I’m from the Simon Blackburn school where relativism is a threat to ethics…
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Ethics are more universal, if anything - don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t play anything by Creed or Kenny G over loudspeakers, that kind of thing. Things everyone can get behind. Morality tends to be an implementation of ethics, like respecti
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by vr46 3y ago
One of my favourite theatres ever. I sometimes rode my motorbike and stuck it in a bay on Napier Terrace and even there I’d see drug dealing going on, which made me extremely nervous, having been bike jacked before. I was honestly surprised
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by vr46 3y ago
The main stretch of Angel up to the Business Design Centre has always been pug-ugly, but things improve considerably the second you step off the main drag to pubs like The Camden Head or even The York, and then continuing towards the canal,
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Education was once broader than just some kind of ladder that led to a cubicle, it was about creating people with a penchant for lifelong learning, a challenge that tested people and improved them, a means to share information and discoveri
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At the very bottom of things I expected to see this week, amazing. Worth playing with on sheer chutzpah, hats off to everyone involved. I don’t know a thing about Pascal, though, why would anyone still be using it? Is it good?
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by vr46 3y ago
Generally, I wouldn't get in the water anywhere after Teddington Lock, because it gets very tidal, very quickly. I grew up and lived in that part of London and sections of Twickenham are regularly flooded, plus cars are regularly swept
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I'm less sure that voting for them would make any difference, given the way elected politicians behave, but the levels of corruption seem to belie the bureaucracy, designed to prevent corruption. I feel that they're too keen on us
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The company is busy doing other things, but the domain is probably critical to protect lest a nefarious actor buys it and hosts Stuffit-masquerading malware. Companies hate it when their teams buy new domains as it often commits them to pro

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